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That source isn't even able to directly lay out the claim, it spends 5 paragraphs IMPLYING Krugman changed his position for hand-wavy political reasons.
But lacks any direct evidence that he actually did so. It misquotes things and really grasps at straws to make a point, holy moly.
It's so disingenuous lmao.
Landlords are the least productive class in society, and it's not even close in terms of ranking.
choose those who have graduated from tier-1 institutions. University degrees mean nothing at the end of the day.
It means everything for YC's model.
YC does not care about the software.
They care about the founders.
YC's model and ecosystem is explicitly designed to be a who's who club of interconnected founders that are very, very encouraged to """rely""" on each other when building their companies.
YC uses a lot of double speak regarding this ecosystem, but if you explained the concept to a layman on the street they'd tell you exactly what this concept is in just a very few, very blunt words.
Elite-class founders and lots of cheap, imported, or "passionate" labor.
Let's get real here folks.
This thread is going to use very dressed up and lofty language discussing the issue, in order for the express purpose of dancing around the fundamental issue here.
Y Combinator as a concept, and all of its "children" are rotten to the core.
Every single company is "evil" in some form, and not in the usual "private companies are big baddies" kind of way. They grossly and recklessly violate laws and ethical boundaries day in and day out.
The sooner people are even willing to entertain this, the sooner we can have actual conversation around these issues.
What is there to learn? If anything developers are still the one's training and enhancing the models by giving them more feedback cycles and what works and what doesn't.
You are misusing some of those words and I'm not even sure how to interpret them even with a hefty dose of good-faith reading.
The report is not premature and it's not premature to comment on them.
Can you clearly and explicitly state why you feel like the report or the commentary is premature?
It's not premature. Every single expert in this field has warned about these issues since even ~2012 days when these types of platforms were being publicly discussed.
This is an expected and understood result given the hardware and software involved.
You will not get past these issues without a RADICAL improvement in camera technology paired with specialized, dedicated processing hardware matched against several (and I mean several several) "common" environment profiles.
FSD is a scam. It's not safe. It is not technically sound.
The fact that there aren't many more accidents with the system is a by product of consistent and well thought out road standards, car standards, other safety systems present on cars, and driver education.
lol at the parent comment being flagged.
Being factual is really problematic on this site, ain't it?
I think this perspective has resolutely been debunked at this point.
The government has historically, routinely, consistently, solved problems more complex than cloud computing.
The only way you'd think otherwise is if you had some other motivation to pretend otherwise... some sort of ideology.
Nope. It's definitely directed at the comment employing troll truisms.
Trying to masquerade your motivations with words that mean something is a trick as old as time, but this one is pretty blatant ;).
If you're capable of doing it, take a step back and reevaluate yourself. But something tells me you're not.
How dishonest or stupid do you have to be to make this comment?
Basically a reflection of the average intelligence in the U.S.
I carefully explained the reality of the situation
No you didn't, because it's not factual lol.
The time you spent writing this comment you could have been googling.
I know it's within HN's nature to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian but this is absurd.
I'm not debating it... we're not debating it. You're having it explained to you.
If I go by my experience
That would be the very definition of a bubble.
I don't buy this.
It's not really debatable. Git flow came about because of SVN / CVS practices and was the first and for many still is THE branching model they use.
Yet all of us have been using Git for ages
You say "all of us" but then you completely ignore the primary branching model the vast, vast majority of people use on Git.
Just for the record, this isn't being stated in support of git-flow it's just a historical fact that's not really debatable.
but I think git-flow was popular largely because of the catchy name and catchy diagram.
It was because Git showed up in the era of SVN / CVS where those branching models were created because of the uh... let's just call it technical mishaps of those source control systems.
Git did not have the hang ups of SVN / CVS / etc but people stuck with what was familiar.
Nope. Gitflow is not trunk based development.
I mean good. The U.S. is currently run by a pedophile ring and has legitimate Nazi elements in its employ.
Also O365 just sucks. We can do better. We've had better. Please stop using MS products and technology stacks.
No idea where you're going with that, other than it's another dipshit perspective lol.
This is a pretty dipshit take.
You didn't link me to the thing that we are discussing. You linked me to a current financial report, that of course just lists the tolls.
Do you understand how bonds are issued?
But, since you're seemingly in Texas and are completely unaware of a vibrant example of the type of outcomes I'm discussing, here's one right in your home state from 2017.
https://austincountynewsonline.com/texans-angered-sh-130-ban...
According to the terms that emerged from bankruptcy court, all of the private entity’s $1.4 billion debt was wiped away, leaving federal taxpayers left holding the bag for the $430 million federally-backed Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan given to the private entities.
Some are asking why the state of Texas didn’t step in and insist the public interest was protected and defended in bankruptcy court. Taxpayers have a right to know why they didn’t get the road back, why their $430 million federal TIFIA loan was wiped out, and why they have to continue paying tolls for another 45 years to use a road that’s lost $1.2 billion of its $1.4 billion original value. The state also had a revenue sharing agreement with the previous owners, Cintra-Zachry. Will the state ever see any of that promised toll revenue?
Would you care to explain that in the course of this discussion, why that very recent and very vibrant example of the exact thing being discussed did not resonant with you?
I mean you clearly implied that you've read these financial reports before, so it raises lots of questions about your motivations and I dare say, honesty.
EDIT: Here's another one! https://trb.bank/case-study/north-texas-tollway-authority/
lmao
Windows 2000 was a bug riddled, poorly architected punching bag for malware.
Things definitely went up-hill AFTER Windows 2000.
What on earth would cause someone to say Windows 2000 was a good release? It wasn't even a good release when it came out, and it definitely didn't stand the test of time.
I've never called ahead or anything like that. There are a fair amount of people using them on the weekends, as far as I've seen.
There is one school that definitely is gated off, but that's because it's near a major point of interest and I can only assume they're worried about non-community members damaging the property.
I have for the toll roads I drive on.
Link me so I can draw some circles for you.
to argue it's funded primarily, originally through tax dollars
Do you know how bonds work? It's an isomorphic operation. A state entity is issuing bonds out to creditors. A lot of those major creditors will also be secured creditors.
It's the same thing, just covered under a sleight of hand trick.
So the state borrows money from a select few major creditors but it's "wink wink" not against the full faith and credit of the state, then regulates a consumption tax on the road, and the investors and authority get a slice of the pie.
For what purpose?
And when the toll roads fail either the creditors are paid out either through the state out right buying the road or allowing the debt to be a tax write off over X amount of time.
This "viewpoint" is otherwise known as "reality".
This American brainworm is exhausting, ngl. Buddy you're getting bamboozled by a few vocab words and a 3 step accounting trick, please don't presume to talk to anyone about reality.
why did you ignore my other statements that expressly address this "viewpoint."
The bonds are issued either by the authority itself or some other agency expressly delegated to issue those bonds.
The accounting is done EXPRESSLY with the knowledge of the states general fund, even though there's a "wink wink" don't use the tax dollars to """directly""" pay for these bonds.
Don't believe me? Look at the financial reports yourself.
There is zero point in the fuzzy accounting other than to make something that simply should be public, private, and allow grifters to make a buck or two off it.
In EVERY CASE of a failed toll road the major bond holders have all been made whole through the state directly or indirectly.
If you have the money, investing in a toll road is the easiest way to make lots of money with 0 risk.
But you can only do that if the entity issues those bonds "knows" and "selects" you. :)
Have you tried? I've certainly been able to. And I'm definitely not alone in having used those facilities. I've used them personally and for ad-hoc sport events (lacrosse isn't exactly popular in the area I'm in right now).
In the U.S. you can definitely use school facilities after hours (such as the fields, and even some buildings, etc).
The primary concern with not allowing access at any time of day to the general public is of course, the children.